Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,154, Hiram Flagg, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Flagg, Hiram
S. 29,154
CONTENTS

15944 Massachusetts
Niran Flagg
Admitted in the State of Mass a who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Allen of the Regt commanded by Col Mawes in the Mass a line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of Aug 1833 and to Mrs Maria Maria  Wolton a Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $40.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 1833 10.00
$50.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. K. Watson Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 2 Page 25
71 And Oliver

Hiram Flagg
15146
Rate 6 Months
16. & 16 06
March 11. 1893
P. 291
San Joana Croton Mass

BRIEF in the case of  William Slagg  of Middlesex in the State of Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 69 Years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Spring In 17 78 " 3 " Private Genl. Washington   17 79 " 3 " " Capt. Green, Col. Howe  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? not legible Woburn  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Documentary proof for three months first term - traditional evidence - 1 living witness,  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not properly connected - witness not held as credible 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
John Anderson Examining Clerk.

Declaration No. 1
15140
Hiram Hagg.
This Case contains Three papers N o 1. 2. & 3
Please send my Case to my Cousin to my Agent Sam d  an son Boston Ms.
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DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Middlesex COUNTY OF Worcester , ss.
ON this twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting at Charlestown , a resident of Hiram Hagg in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged  69 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
 1 In the Spring of A.D. 1778 he engaged for three months to guard Brandywine Army at Brinker hill in Charlestown he is listed into the Company of Capt. John Kelly in Lt. Joseph Bancroft of Reading there were only two Companies at Brinker hill Capt. Kellyman and Capt. Frazar, and he does not know that there were any Field Officers, the three might have been some at Fort No. 2. he was guarding at Charlestown neck, Brinker hill, and the Mill Dam, in this service he continued like he completed three months and was dismissed by Capt. Davis in Woburn.  2 In the Summer of 1779. he engaged to go to Rhode Island for three months and was enlisted in the Company of Capt. Green of Reading in Col. Cyprian Hays Reg. his Lts were John Holden of Stoneham and Joseph Perry of Woburn, he proceeded to Rhode Island & was encamped on Butts hill where he remained on that Island until he completed his three months. 
Hiram Hagg
And at the same Court the following interrogatories were propounded to the said Hiram Hagg
 1 When and in what year were you born? Answer. I was born in Woburn in Mass on the 16 th day of Nov r 1763  2 Have you a record of your age. I have no family record, but there is one in Woburn. Town records.  3 When were you first called into service where have you lived since? The Revolutionary war, and when do you now live? Answer. I was living in Woburn, when I was in the war, and have since lived some almost two years I lived in Stoneham.  4 When were you called into service were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a Substitute and for whom? I always volunteered as a Substitute for some one. I never received any written discharge. I never in any such discharge.  5 State the names of officers who were with the troops when you served? Answer. I saw Col. Green at Rhode Island  6 State the names of persons from you are known to be Rev. Mr. Wade Col. Hagg, and Marshall Hagg. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
J. P. May
Hiram Hagg
James Hagg

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
We Benjamin Wade a Clergyman residing in the Town of Woburn in the County of Middlesex and Marshall Fowle residing in the same Town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Fogg who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Sixty nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Before me Saml Daria jus Peace for all the Benjamin C. Wade Counties in said Commonwealth. Marshall Fowle
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Benjamin Wade who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Woburn and that Marshall Fowle who has also signed the same is a resident in the said town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. P. Day W. Root
I Isaac Fisher Register, Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Fogg for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said Court this twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Isaac Fisher Register

Declaration of 15140
Herem Hagg.
This Case contains three papers No 1. 2. & 3
Meaning my Costa being Costa to my Agent Samuel D. Smith Goston Ms.
I, Isaac Liske Register and Clerk of the same Probate Court, hereby certify that Samuel Dana Esq r is a Justice of the Peace, for the County of Middlesex, and that his signature to the above certificate, and to the annexed Deposition is gen- uine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed, the seal of said Court.
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29 154 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29 154
Hiram Hagg
Rev Mrs
Act: June 7 th 39"
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 127
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Affidavit of William Frawle in the case of Heram Flagg
No 3
Mr. ... Seth - Mass

I William Fawle of West Cambridge County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seventy years, do depose and say, that I served in the war of the Revolution, as by my Declaration on file in the Pension Office, will appear.
And I do further testify and declare that I knew and well remember Hiram Flagg of the same West Cambridge who served as a Soldier in that war, that he was a private Soldier, in the Company of Capt. Wm. Green in Colo. Cushing's Regiment, in which Company, I also served. in AD 1779 the said Hiram Flagg and myself both belonged to the same town we enlisted at the same time, and proceeded to Rhode Island and joined our Company at Butts Hill, and we both continued in service until we had served out our term of three months when our Company was dismissed and we returned together to West Cambridge. I can not now ascertain dates, but I believe we enlisted in July or August, and I will remember we arrived at home in November AD 1779. — William Fawle
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Middlesex to wit October 16 AD. 1832.
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for all the Counties in said Commonwealth William Fawle
who subscribed the above deposition and made solemn Oath, that the same is just and true in all its particulars, according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Sam. Dana And I do further certify that the above named William Fawle is a disinterested and credible witness Sam. Dana Justice of the Peace as aforesaid.

Washington Feb. 26 1833 I certify that the within named Samuel Dana is a justice of the Peace within & for the County of Middlesex  Middlesex State of Massachusetts, & that I am satisfied that the within written name is the hand writing of the said Dana.
Joseph P. Kendall M.P. Worcester North Distric - Mass.

15-146
Hiram Flagg
L. Lana

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of William Slugg which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? Yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No-
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? No-
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
□ See Mr. Kendall's certificate of 26 Feb'y 1833. on the Deposition J. Dana

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
☞ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Nov. 10 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that
the name of Hiram Blagg is borne on a roll of the company of Capt. Jesse Wyman, in the regiment of Col. Jacob Cushing, who did duty as guards at Bunker Hill, for the space of 3. months from the 15 th of February to the 15 th of May 1776.
Edward D. Bangs, Secy